Afghanistan: Refugees
(asked on 24th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January to Question 113300 on Afghanistan: Refugees, what is the breakdown of the 12,000 individuals relocated under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme to the UK by each month since June 2013.
The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme was launched on 1 April 2021 and as such, the data requested can only be provided from April 2021 onwards. This can be found in the table below:
Month | Total ARAP relocations to the UK |
April 2021 | 9 |
May 2021 | 13 |
June 2021 | 115 |
July 2021 | 894 |
August 2021 | 5,947 |
September 2021 | 42 |
October 2021 | 163 |
November 2021 | 374 |
December 2021 | 269 |
January 2022 | 399 |
February 2022 | 444 |
March 2022 | 242 |
April 2022 | 241 |
May 2022 | 429 |
June 2022 | 201 |
July 2022 | 416 |
August 2022 | 414 |
September 2022 | 649 |
October 2022 | 394 |
November 2022 | 403 |
December 2022 | 1 |
Total | 12,059 |
These relocation figures include eligible principals, their dependants who are eligible by default and additional family members (AFM) who qualify to be relocated to the UK under ARAP.
We estimate that a very small number of the AFM figures captured in the above statistics will have been relocated via other HM Government resettlement schemes. Due to data constraints, we are currently unable to provide this breakdown.